Standard 2: Reading and Writing Process
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Students will use a variety of recursive reading and writing processes.
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READING: Students will read and comprehend increasingly complex literary and informational texts. |
4.2.R.1 Students will distinguish how key details support the main idea of a passage. |
Student Actions
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Teacher Actions
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- Students will locate the main idea and key supporting details in a passage.
- Students will describe how key details support the main idea in a passage.
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- Teachers demonstrate how to find the main idea and key supporting details in a text or section of text.
- Teachers provide opportunities for students to locate the main idea and key details in a text or section of text.
- Teachers can scaffold the content by providing students with a list of words or pictures from several categories, having student organize them into groups and create an appropriate title for each group.
- This activity helps address an important struggle students have when it comes to main idea. Students have a hard time understanding that the details that support a certain main idea should all relate to each other to support the main idea.
- Teachers model how to distinguish how key details support the main idea in a text or section of a text.
- Teachers provide opportunities for students to describe how key details support the main idea in a text or section of text.
- Teachers monitor and provide opportunities for students to receive feedback as they describe how key details support the main idea in a passage (e.g. whole group, small group or individual discussion, formative assessment).
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Supporting Resources
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Teacher Insights
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Graphic Organizer for Main Idea/Supporting Details (pdf)
McGraw Hill- How to Find the Main Idea Video (Video)
Passages to Teach Main Idea (website)
Main Idea & Supporting Details Activities (pdf)
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The main idea is not always stated in the first or first few sentences. Sometimes it is repeated throughout the text or is not explicitly stated at all. Being able to identify patterns in the details will help students find the main idea in these texts.
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Supporting details are reasons, examples, facts, steps, or other kinds of evidence that back up and explain the main idea. Details make up most of the information in what a person reads, but some details are more important than others.
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Key supporting details always point right back to the main idea.
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Students often struggle with taking out the details that are not key supporting details. Students should be encouraged to always look back to the main idea and see how the details fit with it.
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Graphic organizers help students develop note-taking skills when working with the main idea and supporting details.
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Due to recursive nature of the standards, it is essential that teachers are aware of how all objectives within and between strands work together for optimal instruction.
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